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Quantitative Reliability Evaluation

The document discusses quantitative reliability evaluation and fault tolerance frameworks. It analyzes several systems - ESS NO.1A, SIFT, and FTMP - and identifies their main components like CPUs, memory, and I/O modules. It also categorizes reliability strategies and estimates the expected downtime from factors like hardware failures, software bugs, procedural faults, and fault tolerance deficiencies. Fault tolerance is implemented through techniques like redundancy, exception handling, and synchronized replication.

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Quantitative Reliability Evaluation

The document discusses quantitative reliability evaluation and fault tolerance frameworks. It analyzes several systems - ESS NO.1A, SIFT, and FTMP - and identifies their main components like CPUs, memory, and I/O modules. It also categorizes reliability strategies and estimates the expected downtime from factors like hardware failures, software bugs, procedural faults, and fault tolerance deficiencies. Fault tolerance is implemented through techniques like redundancy, exception handling, and synchronized replication.

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Quantitative Reliability Evaluation

► Hard ware components failure


► Quantitative measures connecting physical faults are based on three assumptions:
► Component failures will occur independently in independent replicated units
► The behavior of a physical component can be predicted from data gathered from observations of
other components that are assumed to be similar.
► The design of the system is free from faults
Frame work for implementing FT
► Redundancy
► Exceptions- principles
► Exception handling
► interface exceptions
► signaling exceptions
► failure exceptions
Fault Tolerant systems

ESS NO.1A System


► CPU
► Program stores
► Call stores
► Auxiliary units
Reliability Strategies
The four categories and their expected contributions
to system down-time are
► Hardware unreliability-0.4min/yr
► Software unreliability-0.3min/yr
► Procedural faults -0.6min/yr
► Fault tolerance deficiencies-0.7min/yr
► Tolerance of software faults is limited to
attempts at maintaining the consistency of the data
base.
► The programs that perform these error
detection & recovery actions are referred to as the
Audit programs.
SIFT System

► Main processing modules


► I/O processing modules
► Buses
Software system
► Application
► Executive
Reliability Strategies
► The processing modules & the I/O
processing modules do not contain special
hardware provisions for implementing fault
tolerance.
FTMP System
► Number of processing modules
► Global memory modules
► I/O modules
► Buses
► BGU
► BIU
Reliability Strategies
► The replicated executions of a program
occur in tight synchronization
► It supports TMR replication
► Implementation of the replication

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